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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3   
Joni Mitchell  Barangrill   Favoriting For The Roses  Reprise  1972  CD  0:02:04 (Pop-up)
Fareed Haque  Carry On   Favoriting Deja Vu  Blue Note  1997  CD  0:04:50 (Pop-up)
Traffic  40,000 Headmen   Favoriting Traffic  Island  1968  LP  0:12:21 (Pop-up)
Gorillaz  Clint Eastwood   Favoriting Gorillaz  Parlophone  2001  CD  0:15:35 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan  Desolation Row   Favoriting Highway 61 Revisited  Columbia  1965  LP  0:21:11 (Pop-up)
 
Jackson C Frank  Blues Run the Game   Favoriting Blues Run the Game  Columbia  1965  CD  0:37:17 (Pop-up)
Nick Drake  Here Come the Blues   Favoriting Bedroom Tapes  Bootleg  1968  CD  0:40:08 (Pop-up)
Nick Drake  River Man   Favoriting Five Leaves Left  Island  1969  CD  0:43:57 (Pop-up)
Nick Drake  THree Hours   Favoriting Five Leave Left  Island  1969  CD  0:48:14 (Pop-up)
Skip James  Hard Time Killing Floor Blues   Favoriting Hard Time Killing Floor Blues  Vanguard  1966  CD  0:54:21 (Pop-up)
Jellyfish  Russian Hill   Favoriting Spilt Milk  Charisma  1993  CD  1:03:44 (Pop-up)
The Flamingos  I Only Have Eyes For You   Favoriting Flamingo Serenade  End  1959  LP  1:07:51 (Pop-up)
Ray Lamontagne  Be Here Now   Favoriting Til the Sun Turns Black  RCA  2006  CD  1:11:43 (Pop-up)
The Temptations  Papa Was a Rolling Stone   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Gordy  1972  45  1:17:14 (Pop-up)
The Temptations  Masterpiece   Favoriting Masterpiece  Gordy  1973  LP  1:29:12 (Pop-up)
Norman Whitfield/Rose Royce  Water   Favoriting Car Wash OST  MCA  1976  LP  1:42:53 (Pop-up)
Grover Washington Jr  Inner City Blues   Favoriting Inner City Blues  Kudu  1971  LP  1:46:20 (Pop-up)
Rex Garvin and the Might Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:59:10 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 10:02pm
hyde:

hi
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geezerette:

Ears open!
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Funky16Corners:

Good evening!
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Funky16Corners:

I hope everyone is well
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Gary:

I'm not well (lingering summer cold), but please carry on!
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Funky16Corners:

Sorry to hear that. I hope you find the music soothing.
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coelacanth∅:

hello Larry and all
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Funky16Corners:

It has been a bitch of week allergy-wise
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Gary:

I'm taking you in my phone to bed
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Funky16Corners:

Hi C!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Gary - To paraphrase Jimmy Breslin's old beer ad, 'This is a good listening show!' Your ears will be happy
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Funky16Corners:

I hope
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Green Bay!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
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Funky16Corners:

Did you stop at Kroger on the way over for beer pong supplies?
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geezerette:

Lovely. Nervous system says thanks!
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Funky16Corners:

Excellent!
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Cubs Win:

Greets!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Unk!
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Uncle Michael:

Hello, Larry! (McLean Stephenson joke)
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Funky16Corners:

George Memmoli, we hardly knew ye
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Uncle Michael:

Ruth Brown was on that show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Really?!?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Uncle Michael:

Yep.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

As a regular?
Avatar 10:15pm
hyde:

love the show! but must be a short timer. farewell my friends
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Uncle Michael:

It's funny, I grew up with Traffic records as a kid. Then I didn't pay them much mind...but when that Smiling Phases comp came out in the '90s I fell hard again. Then I got to see them open a couple of Dead shows...very cool.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Wow! I just looked it up. I forgot that it was a Diffrent Strokes spinoff
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Love Traffic. Spent a lot of 17-year-old money buying an import LP of John Barleycorn Must Die
  10:18pm
Mike Sin:

It took me a long time to finally start listening to music completely with my ears, as it were, and when I finally did, the first two Traffic albums became totally mesmerizing and hypnotizing experiences.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Uncle Michael:

In middle school I wore the hell out of Low Spark, Barleycorn and Shoot Out.
Avatar 10:18pm
geezerette:

C U, Hyde.

Same,I'll be listening, not looking.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Mike!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite guys
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Funky16Corners:

Low Spark was a fixture on my post-highschool stoner playlist
  10:19pm
cupcakejenny:

Sean just recognized this song. It's in Trolls.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

No kidding!
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Funky16Corners:

Hi Sean!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

Back to Hello Larry, I never realized that John Femia was in that show before Square Pegs
  10:22pm
cupcakejenny:

Ha we're along about the song in the movie and miles came in, listened, and said oh yeah, it's Clint Eastwood. These two.
  10:22pm
cupcakejenny:

Along = talking
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Funky16Corners:

Smart kids. Good ears. Family trait.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Uncle Michael:

Mike, I didn't know the first two albums till I was college-age. I don't know how I came to listen to those other ones so hard when I was 14.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Funky16Corners:

They were getting a LOT of play on FM rock radio
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Uncle Michael:

No FM at boarding school...just the LPs. An older cousin probably gave me one of them.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Funky16Corners:

That's always good. I had a cousin gift me all the early Genesis LPs, which I would have missed for a years otherwise
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Doug Schulkind:

Professor Grogan!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Doug Schulkind:

One of my beloveds. Can't listen to him without weeping.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, it's even moreso if you know his story
  10:38pm
cupcakejenny:

You'll have to play that for them tomorrow. They just went to bed. :)
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Uncle Michael:

The keyboard is about to take a break from me. Thanks in advance for the rest of the show, Larry.

Night all.
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Funky16Corners:

Will do
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks for stopping by Michael
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Doug Schulkind:

What a story.
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, so sad, so much promise
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Doug Schulkind:

Of course, if he hadn't been in the hospital recovering from his burns, he may never have been given a guitar and learned to play.
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Funky16Corners:

True, but it seems like he had to learn that, to make his mark, and then continue on into oblivion. It's poetic and tragic at the same time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Doug Schulkind:

One could do a full-length radio show presenting exclusively artists whose lives were destroyed (or nearly so) by horrendous misdiagnosis of illness or mental illness. So many creative geniuses who were sick but thought to be merely junkies by someone wearing a white coat.
Avatar 10:49pm
geezerette:

Had to come back to say I was galvanized and had to see who that was. Such beauty and sorrow. Stories like that make me nuts.
Grateful for all this.
Off again, tip of imaginary hat.
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Funky16Corners:

Yes indeed. Drake was the same way. It was like he was put here in earth for a very brief time to make his beautiful music and then was snatched back into the ether.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks G!
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coelacanth∅:

'night g
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Funky16Corners:

Doug - Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Monk. and guys that were trapped in prison for prime years like Tadd Dameron and Hank Mobley
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
doctorjazz:

Hi-dug the Nick Drake set, and what can I say about Skip James... Great listening!
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Doug Schulkind:

Eric Dolphy, whose diabetic shock was thought to be an OD. Mongezi Feza, dies of pneumonia while locked in an asylum.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Dr!
  11:00pm
Rich in NC:

Hello all
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coelacanth∅:

Katell Keineg has a beautiful version of river man as well.
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Parq:

Doug, Jeez! I never heard those stories! This savage "health care" culture we have in this country is just incredible.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Health care, racism, institutional and otherwise
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coelacanth∅:

James was very bitter about being "ignored" for all those years and didn't embrace his "rediscovery" very gracefully. -'probably didn't do his health any good.
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Doug Schulkind:

Rediscover this, muthahfuckah.
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Funky16Corners:

The whole wave of rediscovery is rife with issues of race, class etc. I'm thankful it happened though
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Selfish, I know, but all of that music
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coelacanth∅:

yeah - though John Hurt seemed to have a good time with his rediscovery.
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Funky16Corners:

John Hurt was a saintly fellow, in every way. His music brings me a great deal of peace and happiness
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coelacanth∅:

damn...now i forget who's quote this is; a female i think, who said
"i didn't need no 're-discovering'. i knew where i was the whole time."
  11:09pm
Dean:

Mendelssohn rediscovered Bach. Or is that not exactly rediscovery? Anyway, I'm thankful *that* happened.
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Funky16Corners:

I'd rather we have Skip James music to talk about now, than trapped in a stack of shellac 78s in a landfill somewhere.
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Parq:

I remember hearing the Flamingos track when I first, as a 17 year old, saw American Graffiti. I was stunned. Ever since then, I have felt it was one of the most gorgeous vocal performances, to say nothing of the languid and redolent arrangement, I've ever heard.
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Funky16Corners:

That's where it got me too! One of the finest pieces of recorded music ever.
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coelacanth∅:

i do not feel at all ashamed to agree with that sentiment. it's not any more selfish than taking a cookie that someone baked then left behind.
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coelacanth∅:

(re: 11:10)
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Funky16Corners:

Hopefully Skip, and Mississippi John and Son House, and Robert Johnson are off in the ether somewhere smiling because people love the music they made so much
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Doug Schulkind:

Beyond rediscovery, discovery itself has been bumpy and problematic process for many. Conscientious debaters have both supported and criticized the John/Alan Lomax phenomenon. (I come down on the pro side, but with sensitivity to concerns thoughtfully raised.) I agree with you, Larry, that it is way better to have found/preserved than not.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes. The same goes for most recorded ethnography. The methods/reasons/ethics were often problematic, but those moments were captured forever
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Funky16Corners:

And speaking of 'greatest records ever made'...
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coelacanth∅:

i agree with you Doug. yes there are concerns - not least of which who benefited by far the most from those recordings, monetarily...but then - would any, if not more than a very few, of those artists have ever gotten anything at all if it weren't for the Lomaxes?
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Parq:

Yeah. Can you believe this got *heavy* AM radio play?
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Funky16Corners:

Drilled right into my 10 year old head by WABC-AM
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Jeff Ash:

Might I say that this evening's program thus far is a throwback to the late-night free-form FM radio I grew up with in the early to mid-'70s. The silence of the night taken in unexpected directions, with plenty of head space for sussing out what it all means, or what it might mean.
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Funky16Corners:

That was certainly my intention. I'm very happy you picked up on it.
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Funky16Corners:

Can we get Norman Whitfield's head carved into a mountain somewhere?
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coelacanth∅:

the temps themselves thought it was craziness! (and resented that the instrumentation was such a big part of it)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
Jeff Ash:

Amen, Brother Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Hang in, it's going to get even Temptationier and intrumentier!
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Funky16Corners:

I don't think for a minute that Whitfield could have done it without the Tempts
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Funky16Corners:

This is the sound of the radio buried next to my pillow in 1972, with the volume low enough that my folks couldn't tell I was still up at midnight
  11:27pm
Dean:

I'm catching a whiff of ends-means rationalization. I'm a librarian, which means I'm at least professionally in favor of preservation. But it occurs to me, as it never has before, that librarians and archivists strive to collect and preserve with an eye almost exclusively trained on the future, i.e., for generations of readers/listeners/viewers to come, rather than to credit the creators.
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doctorjazz:

I had one of those pillow radios in my teens...
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coelacanth∅:

haha,no! he had a vision but they didn't dig it. some members never got comfortable with the change in style that he steered them into. (i think that's why Ruffin left, eventually...?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Funky16Corners:

I think all we can do at this point is rationalize. I'm not going to stop listening.
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Doug Schulkind:

On this all debaters universally agree: Larry Grogan is a treasure.
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Funky16Corners:

Don't bury me!!
Avatar 11:30pm
geezerette:

Here I am again. Anyone who hasn't seen Robert Flaherty's "Moana" with soundtrack of carefully restored field recordings of traditional
Samoan music, must do so. His daughter Monica was responsible
for the project. en.wikipedia.org...
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Funky16Corners:

I think Ruffin and Kendriks were both long overdue for a solo shot. I think it's a crime Levi Stubbs never really got to step out on his own from the Tops
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Doug Schulkind:

Ha!
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coelacanth∅:

(...i think i'm mistaken about Ruffin. he may've left before that recording)
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Funky16Corners:

That Moana looks really interesting
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Now here's one that ought to be billed as 'Norman Whitfield with a special guest appearance by the Temptations'
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Jeff Ash:

Dang it, Larry, you're gonna make me pull out all my Tempts records, and probably all the Undisputed Truth, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Parq:

What Doug said (@11:28) adjusted to accommodate Larry's request (@ 11:29).
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Funky16Corners:

You can however dig me up as often as needed
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Funky16Corners:

Someday I'm going to twist someone's arm into making a Whitfield boxed set
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geezerette:

You are all treasures.
Moana is stunning.
Good night,all.
  11:34pm
Dean:

We have no choice but to rationalize, true. But when we listen, we probably owe it to ourselves and to the artists to do so critically.
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Funky16Corners:

Listen to that rhythm guitar ringing in the background, like six string metronome
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Geezerette!
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Funky16Corners:

@DEan - ALWAYS...also I've had many stern discussions trying to disabuse people of romantic/stereotypical ideas about old time blues singers
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:

The same goes for trash rock/R&B/garage fans who idolize people they think are drunken wildmen
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Funky16Corners:

Who were working musicians/creative people
  11:37pm
Dean:

And, I'll repeat, for Bach.
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doctorjazz:

We got the funk riff there...
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coelacanth∅:

show business...or i guess in some cases snow business.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Funky16Corners:

Or, as the late Jerry Lewis might have said, "The business we call show"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Get ready, Whitfield is about to jettison the Tempts and exit the stratosphere completely
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
Jeff Ash:

Note to self. Pick up that "Car Wash" soundtrack you have seen so many times while record digging.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
coelacanth∅:

earlier today someone said Iggy Pop is a vegetarian and rarely drinks (which really shouldn't surprise anyone with open eyes)...but it reminded me - though i didn't mention it then, that i've had a hypothesis for years now that Keith Richards is not the party animal people think he is; and maybe never has been.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, a while back when I found out that Whitfield had done a bunch of instrumental music for the movie I grabbed it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Funky16Corners:

@C- I agree. I always thought it served Mick and Keef's purposes to APPEAR to be dissapated aristocrats, but they never would have gotten this old if they really were as marinated in chemicals
  11:50pm
Dean:

Is it true that Hank Crawford was the saxophonist planned for this Washington record?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Funky16Corners:

I hadn't heard that, though it's certainly feasible
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Funky16Corners:

I'll have to play more of the early 70s Grover stuff in the future
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
doctorjazz:

Sax seems to be Grover according to Wikipedia... Great sounds, thanks!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks for listening!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry!

gnight
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Funky16Corners:

Nite C!
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